Thanks a lot Robert and everybody...very useful
information..
regards,
pelin.
--- Robert Koehler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Re. Architecture and Film--
> Check out the issue number 4 1/2 of Projections
> (edited by John Boorman and
> Walter Donohue) printed in collaboration with
> Positif for the cinema
> centennial. It includes a marvellous essay by Peter
> Greenaway on
> architecture in film, something Greenaway himself
> has explored with great
> intensity and interest in many of his films. He
> dramatizes and visualizes
> his concerns about architecture most fully in
> ``Belly of an Architect,''
> which offers a virtual architectural tour of Rome.
> Another search you might
> do is of Raul Ruiz' writings, which are peppered
> with his musings about
> architecture--again, another filmmaker who has
> inventively made architecture
> a frequent major player in his films. The previously
> cited books by posters
> are very good, though some of them are oddly skimpy
> on such
> filmmaker-architecture fans as Greenaway. Also read
> Antonioni's brilliant
> ``The Architect of Vision,'' which compiles a wide
> range of pieces by and
> interviews with Antonioni, who can discuss at length
> the importance he
> places on architecture. Be sure to see his ``La
> Notte,'' in particular,
> which begins with a spectacular downward vertical
> crane shot along the
> outside of Milan's Pirelli building, and later
> provides some of the most
> complex mise en scene ever accomplished using
> mid-century modern suburban
> domestic architecture as medium of mystery, illusion
> and dislocation. His
> ``L'Avventura'' contains explicit architectural
> references, as well, to high
> Renaissance Sicilian architecture and to De
> Chirico's modernism. This is a
> wonderful, rich topic to explore--good luck with
> your work.
> Robert Koehler
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